Avahi is a free zeroconf implementation - A service discovery protocol. It can be used to find services on a network and also to publish services to be found by other Zeroconf clients.
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building avahi: missing QtCore
I am trying to build Avahi from source. ./configure tells me I am missing package "QtCore" but for the life of me I can't find it!
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Ubuntu bonjour name server
Is there a way to have my remote server talking to my mac via bonjour?
Avahi and netatalk are configured and ready using afp.
Tried with opnvpn without success. Also tried with the dns-sd server setup but I'm confused...
FYI: Root Server with…
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Centos 7 Avahi doesn't resolve from windows machines
I have installed and configured avahi-daemon and samba on Centos 6.6 and it's working when I am testing it from an Ubuntu machine. e.g.: ping myhostname.local or smb://myhostname.local
However, when I try from a windows machine, neither samba works…
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How to discover a Cisco switch via Bonjour on Linux
I have a simple network consisting of a Linux box (running dhcpd and avahi-daemon), a Cisco SF302-08PP switch, some Zeroconf-capable devices, and for debugging a MacBook Pro. Everything gets their addresses from the DHCP server on the Linux box.
The…
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how to give cname to any device?
I am working on linux environment and c language. I can not use python,perl,PHP and apache. What my exact need is I want to give a same host name to each device connected in the network. I know that we can't give same host names to all the devices.…
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DHCP failsafe subnetwork
I have some systems connected via a simple stupid ethernet switch. Under usual conditions, the switch is connected to a large network providing DHCP service and Internet gateway. However, if the group gets disconnected from the large network, or the…
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How to unblock service discovery for IPv4 via Avahi?
On a Debian 6.0.6 system (squeeze) I am having trouble resolving a host using Avahi and IPv4. Here is a sample output:
: nr@homedog 10102 ; avahi-browse -a
+ eth0 IPv6 yorkie [00:1f:3b:d8:67:1d] Workstation local
+ eth0 IPv6…
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Norman Ramsey
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Avahi & cups on FreeBSD
I set up cups and avahi on FreeBSD 8.0. However cups printer does not shows in avahi-browse -a on client (other things like ssh server are shown). Additionally if I try to run avahi-browse -a on server it does not succeed:
# avahi-browse -a
Failed…
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Maciej Piechotka
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Avahi found IP changes after a few seconds
I use avahi to find machines on the local network. It's been acting up recently, causing a machine to hand out the wrong IP. I ssh'd into a different machine to debug the issue.
Confirming the currently resolved IP is wrong:
$ getent hosts…
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Avahi-browse only showing ipv6 entries when in a different vlan
Why are only IPv6 entries shown, what happened to the IPv4 entries? IPv6 Entries are the only ones being populated with the avahi-browse when run from a different vlan.
Setup IGMP, PIM on L3 switch with a vSphere ubuntu or VyOS vm todo mDNS…
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Declare avahi host as 127.0.0.1 result a collision
I'm trying to configure an avahi host with IP 127.0.0.1 (I want network computer to see themselves on a specific hostname for testing purposes).
So i added this in /etc/avahi/hosts file :
127.0.0.1 myhosname.local
But, when execute…
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Avahi / Zeroconf: Configure DNS-SD for external Server
I have a centralized remote printer, say "printer.company.com" with IPP and I need to publish this printer in a local network with NAT.
Services for "local" services are no problem, but I could not find any easy to follow solution to configure…
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avahi-resolve resolves hostname that dig -p 5353 @224.0.0.251 does not?
I thought avahi-resolve and dig -p 5353 @224.0.0.251 did much the same thing.
However, I have a device where I can resolve its name using avahi-resolve but not using dig:
$ avahi-resolve --name ding-5cd80b3.local
ding-5cd80b3.local 192.168.0.248
$…
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how to get a connection between Windows and Linux without an existing DHCP server
Scenario: In general a ubuntu machine (called server) runs in a network and gets an IP from it. Due to testing, sometimes a windows machine (client) is physical connected to the ubuntu machine exclusively. (Because the server is mounted on a car…
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How do I figure out the nameservers Avahi is using?
Avahi now runs in Ubuntu to serve as a nameserver on 127.0.1.1. How do I figure out which nameserver(s) Avahi auto-discovered to use?
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